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Coins. 



During the last year the Society lias been presented witli 30 new 

 coins. Of these, 15 are small pieces of lead, with hardly any mark on 

 them, so that one is led to question their nature as coins. The Society 

 possesses already a large number of similar pieces. One gold coin is 

 a so-called pafZ«uj/an/.a (because it is shaped like a lotus). It has been 

 attributed to the Kadamba kings of the North-Western Dekhan and 

 Northern Mysore, of about the hih or 6th century A.D., but the shape 

 of some Nagari characters occurring on it leads one to put it down to a 

 considerably later period. Fiom Southern India also came 8 small 

 gold coins, so-called fanar>is, presented to us by Lieut. -Col. Bain. It is 

 difficult to say to which dynasty or period they belong, and very little 

 is known about them. Lastly, we have received 6 Muhammadan coins, 

 viz., 1 each of Alauddin Khiljl and Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq and 2 of 

 Muhammad ibu Tughlaq, all Delhi Emperors of the 13th and 14th 

 centuries A.D., and one rupee each of the Mughal Emperors Muhammad 

 Shah and Shah Alam, the former being fiom the Surat Mint. 



Bibliotheca ludica. 



Twenty fasciculi have been published during the course of the 

 year at a cost of Rs. 8,780-4-9. Of this sum the printing charges 

 amount to Rs. 6,380-12-9 and the editing charges to Rs. 3, .399-8-0, the 

 average cost of publishing each fasciculus being Rs. 439. Of these 

 twenty fasciculi, one is in the Tibetan and nineteen in the Sanskrit 

 Series ; none is in the Ai'abic- Persian series. The folloAving is a descrip- 

 tive catalogue of the Avorks which have been either commenced or 

 finished during the year. 



"Works that have cuiii-: jo a close. 



Tibetan Series. 



Slier Phyin is a literal translation of the Qatasahasrika Praiiia- 

 paramita in Tibetan. Prajiiaparamita is the great work of the Maha- 

 yana School. Nagarjjuna the great preacher of Mahayana, who 

 flourished in the second century of the Christian Era is said to liave 

 brought the Prajnaparamita from the nether regions. It has several 

 recensions of various extent. One is called the Svalpaksara, a recension 

 in a few words very recentl}- discovered in Nepfd. The second is in seven 

 hundred <;lokas known as Sapta^atika Prajiiaparamita. I^he tliird is 

 Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita in 8,000 ylokas. This has aheady been 

 l)ublished in this series. The fourth is Paficaviin9atisahasrika Prajiia- 

 paramita in 25,000 ylokas. The fifth and the largest is the ^ataaahasrika 



